What Is This On My Veggie Plant

I pulled the plant up and it had some kind of liquid that was red coming out of it and what looked like black sludge

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#1 Comment By BushDoctor On 06/08/2022 @ 1:33 pm

This is a slime mold! It is unsightly, but it is doing its best to save your plant from some nasty bacteria in the soil. The slime molds will eat these bacteria.

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